[ All of that and he's still having an incredibly hard time figuring out if she's actually native to this world or not, what she says sounds completely foreign to him both compared to his own world and what he understands of this one. Except...

Except for that one thing: I was born a human. People here haven't been calling themselves human. They've been calling everyone "Prismal" or "Moonblessed".

Which means her situation is the same as his, maybe even being made (mostly) human again like he was, if everything she says was also true... except, she doesn't seem to know that.

Somehow he finds something incredibly sad in that, and it makes him hesitate for a moment. ]

Nike... [ It's gentle. Much gentler as he slowly gets back to his feet as well, like he knows what he's about to say is hard. ] This morning...

...did you wake up this morning somewhere strange? Covered in shards and surrounded by crystals?